IIM Field Updates

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Facebook PhotosEden Baptist Church, (EBC) Brooksville, FL, took
a team of seven to serve with On Eagles Wings Ministries (OEWM) in Leon,
Nicaragua on June 11-18, 2016.This was
the church’s fourth experience in working with this organization.Its founders, Oscar and Rosibel Corea, and
their team once again coordinated an amazingly diverse missions experience for the
team. We connected with OEWM through
Rev. Charles Pinkerton, founder and director of International Impact Ministries
(IIM).

Pastor Damont was able to preach several times
and also spoke at the weekly leadership meeting, which involved churches from several
denominations in Leon. Many seeds were planted and the Lord also gave a harvest
during the services.It was such a
blessing to worship the Lord with Nicaraguan brothers and sisters and enjoy
their lively music.

The team went to El Limonal in Chinandega and was
able to meet the family who was the recipient of the next house provided from
funds raised by EBC.This was the third
house EBC has been able to construct in this community.While there, the team was able to help break ground
for the house. They were also able to
share a bible story and the gospel, serve the children attending the church’s
weekly feeding program, paint nails and faces, and just interact with the
children and their families. Pastor Damont and Kathie were able to visit the
children they support and both families introduced them to their new babies!

The Women’s Missions and Ministries at EBC
involved the entire church in this missions trip through a pillowcase dress
project.Over 200 pillowcase dresses
were made with the inscription “Jesús me ama” embroidered on one of the
pockets.Also, over 200 pairs of shorts
and shirts for boys were collected.What
a joy it was for the team to distribute these items and see the smiles on the
faces of the children.

The team visited the local hospital and was able
to meet many children. They had prayer with them and their families and
distributed candy, toys, and clothes that EBC had collected.Also, they went to several villages and
cooked meals for the children and had a great time playing with them.Most importantly, they were able to share the
gospel through songs, bible stories, and testimonies. This year, the team was also able to go into a
local elementary and high school to share bible stories, testimonies, and the
gospel message.Due to the earthquakes
that Nicaragua experienced this week, the team was able to help distribute food
in a village in Puerto Morazan.Ninety
percent of the men that live in this community are fishermen and the government
had forbidden them to fish due to a tsunami threat because of the
earthquakes.Therefore, the families had
no income and were running out of food.Through Oscar’s ministry, 12,000 pounds of fortified rice was distributed
to needy families.The team also served
a meal to the families, and Pastor Damont was able to share the gospel.

The team was blessed to hear Oscar’s testimony
again, and he has an incredible story of God’s miraculous work in his life. Rosibel also shared her testimony and she,
too, has an amazing testimony of the way God brought her to salvation.This special couple loves the Lord and He has
blessed both their marriage and ministry in extraordinary ways.It was a privilege and joy for the team to
serve with them.

Pastor Damont and Kathie were also able to serve
with Oscar and his team this past December and were able to see what OEWM does
when a team from the U.S. is not there.They just keep going!Each day
brought new opportunities to serve in villages to share the gospel, feed the
children, distribute Christmas presents, and share the love of Jesus.

Eden
Baptist Church has committed to continue to pray for, support financially, and
send teams to serve with OEWM because they have proven themselves to be an
organization committed to reaching the lost for Christ as well as helping to
meet their physical needs.By scheduling
our trip through Pastor Charles with IIM, EBC has found it to be a unique and
high-quality missions experience.And, to
be able to work directly with a Nicaraguan team who already has relationships
with their people makes it easier to have effective missions trips. The
beautiful accommodations and delicious food at The Dream Center makes the stay
comfortable and enjoyable.EBC has seen
the miraculous ways God has provided for OEWM over the past four years and know
that He has even greater things in store for them.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

What a delightful
week!!! ChetsCreekChurch
combined with the University
of North Florida to being
us new computers for the computer lab. The university students loaded the
computers with educational software. They brought the computers to Haiti and are
teaching our teachers how to use the new software. Praise the
LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Each afternoon I have
devotion with the cooks and cleaning people. I love doing this.
These people love the Lord with all their hearts. I have much to learn
about faith from them. Praise the LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We still need summer
school teachers. Time is running out to apply for this. It helps
the children so much to have an American teacher for reading in English in the
summer. We can tell which ones have had summer school by how well they
read. We will hold summer school with as many teachers as we get. Please
keep summer school in prayer.

We would also love to have
people who can teach computer skills this summer to our teachers and older
students. They need to learn Windows, Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
This could be done with different teachers coming for 1 week at a time. Please
keep this in prayer.

I am so glad I decided to
follow Jesus. I am so glad I answered the call to come to Haiti. I
have never regretted either decision. I love seeing the progress the
children are making. We are teaching future doctors and lawyers and
senators and evangelists, etc. They will go out and do things I can never
do. And they will go out with Jesus in their hearts. Praise the
LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for making it
possible for me to be here. Thank you for making it possible for these
children to be in school. Thank you for caring about children in Haiti. Praise
the LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, April 4, 2015

God bless you papa. I pray
you and mama are doing well and bless in Jesus name. We are doing well thanks
to the Lord. God is good. Everything went well with OralRobertsUniversity team. I think
they had a great experience and we worked them hard. They helped us paint some
houses at the dump and helped us mix concrete for the play ground at the dump
as well and helped us paint some of the rooms at the dream center and feed the
children at different feeding programs and even helped other teams with the
clinics with Gods eyes and RivertownCommunityChurch
team. The doctors from Gods Eyes that came with RivertownCommunityChurch blessed us with
the eye exam machine and the lenses to do the eye exams so we are trained now
to do the eye exams and share the Gospel with others and the love of Jesus
using that platform by providing eye exams and glasses to the people. Thank you
papa for investing in us so that we could go panama to receive the training needed.
I love you and miss you papa. We pray for you and mama everyday with love your
son in Christ Oscar Corea and family.

P.S. RCC gave me 5500 cash money to build another home at the dump. We are so
happy and blessed.

More Updates from these trips and pictures will be coming soon!!! Mission teams please remember to send in your pictures and stories about your trip.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Celebration Baptist Church in Tallahassee, FL has raised $11,000 for the construction of two new houses at the Dump Ministry in Nicaragua. They will be working with Bro Oscar in Nicaragua to get these houses built. A construction team will be going to Nicaragua in March 2015 to build these houses. The Dump Ministry in Nicaragua ministers to people in terrible conditions and who are in desperate need of housing.

We can truly say that 2014 was a very bless year for OEWM and all our network
of 60 churches. We were able to share the love of Jesus over 200 times through
the different platforms the Lord has provided.

Thank you so much for helping us go and share the life changing message of
Jesus Christ with so many people in Nicaragua.

We feed over 60 thousand children not including pregnant ladies, elder people
and disable people.

Over 10 churches got benefitted with kitchen utensils and equipped to cook and
feed the children, with a new concrete stove, knives, pots, bowls, spoons, etc

Five houses were built at the dump and we are working on 2 more right
now. A total number of 9 houses for 9 families plus the 2 being worked on now
have been built.

Four churches this year built two clinics to provide medicine to those that
need it, and three kitchen stoves for the feeding programs.

Over 1800 people received medical assistance through medical missions and over
1000 were blessed with eye exams and new glasses.

We began a soccer academy where hundreds of teenagers and children and youth
receive the fundamentals but most important discipleship through Gods word,
plus the opportunity to take a girls soccer team to the national tournament,
and a semi pro boys to the national tournament.

Over 80,000 thousand people were discipled and received leadership training
through the different platforms the God has provided including the children at
the feeding programs, T.V programs, radio programs, medical missions, churches
and houses constructions where hundreds have opened up their heart to the Lord.
(a huge thanks to FMSC for the Mana Pack rice they provide to our ministry)...

30 visits to the hospital to provide food to the homeless outside the hospital
and help provide medicine to the needy
and evangelize them.

Visited 7 high schools to do evangelistic work and share testimonies with the
students and teachers and even the parents.

6 ladies conferences were held to reach over 300 ladies to help equip and
expand the gospel.

5 youth conferences were done through the year.

14 leadership conferences including the Global leadership from Willow Creek
were completed.

2 visits to the prison to share with 600 inmates where some were saved and some
rededicated their lives to the Lord.

2 youth concerts were held

3 evangelistic crusades where hundreds gave their lives to the Lord and
some rededicated, and were able to impact the pastors with new ideas, and
strategies and motivate them to work the way we do.

2000 children received a smile on their face by receiving a new toy and we
still have a couple more activities to go yet....

And a huge shout out to the Lord for the Dream Center, about 80% of it is
completed a special thanks to the Bjork family for being obedient and willing
to give to the Lord for the Dream to come true. Thank you all so much for all
you do for the Kingdom and to help us do the work God has sent us to do. Please
keep us in your prayers as we will continue to pray for you all for the Lord to
continue providing us the resources and sending the people down to continue
building GodsKingdom together.

On behalf of our team please and family we wish you all a Happy New Year. We
love you all, thank you for being a part of our family.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

The team
from EdenBaptistChurch had a wonderful missions trip
to Nicaragua
June 14-22, 2014, and was blessed once again by working with Oscar and Rosibel
and their awesome team. Pastor Damont
enjoyed preaching at the Rose of Sharon Church on Sunday morning and again on
Monday evening at the youth service. Connie Rivenbark and Kathie Drake shared their
testimonies in the Sunday morning worship service and Pastor Blair shared a
devotion on Monday evening.

The team
went to the city dump in Chinandega on Monday morning where they toured the
area and saw several of the homes that have been built through Oscar’s
ministry. Damont and Kathie were able to
meet the two children we sponsor and that was such a huge blessing. Kathie was able (through a translator) to
talk at length with them and to begin a relationship.

We were happy
to see the new tables with tile tops that had been added since our trip last
year. This made ministering there so
much easier. Also the pharmacy had been
completed. We shared bible stories,
played games, and did several other activities with the children.

We met the young
woman whose house we would be building with the funds Eden Baptist had provided. Seeing her current living conditions and
hearing her share about what this gift meant to her and her family was a huge
blessing to the team. The men began
construction on her house and were able to work there four days. A couple of the men also worked on another
house at the dump.

While the
men were at the dump, the women went to two feeding centers each day and
prepared and served food, shared bible studies, and did other activities with
the children. The plan of salvation was
shared in the villages, and we made almost 400 salvation necklaces as a
reminder of how to be saved. The
children received a copy of what the beads on the necklaces stood for (in
Spanish) to take home to their families.
Aneriam was our translator and he is an exceptional godly man. Oscar has trained his staff extremely well,
and we were especially impressed with how well Aneriam interacted with the
children. He truly has a love for God
and for children.

We were
able to visit the dream center and were amazed and blessed to see what all has
been built since our last visit. We had
prayer walked the area (which was just grass) last year. Now the first level of the center is almost
completed! God has truly provided for this center through the generosity of
donors and is fulfilling the vision He gave to Oscar. We expect many amazing things to happen here
in the future. We were also able to
clean the inside of the storage unit as a new shipment of rice was arriving the
following day.

We visited
the local hospital and were able to meet many children. We had prayer with them and their families
and distributed candy, toys, and clothes that our team had collected.

We went to
a ballpark on Saturday and shared the gospel with many people in the
bleachers. Three young men and one older
woman prayed to received Christ. One of
Oscar’s team members was so excited because these young men were neighbors of
his and he planned to follow up with them.
An older man indicated he wanted to read the bible we gave him to learn
more about accepting Christ because he thought it was a difficult process. He thought only Jews were supposed to read
the bible! But, the gospel was shared
with him and he said he felt like he would make that decision after reading the
bible for himself.

We prayed
with several others that indicated that they were believers but had some prayer
requests. Many bibles and tracts were
distributed. Damont shared a devotion
between games and gave an invitation to accept Christ. Several children and men indicated they made
that decision.

After the
trip to the ballpark, we were taken to a local beach and treated to a wonderful
meal, which we all enjoyed. We went to
the market on the way back to shop and to have one last visit to the local ice
cream shop!

We had
devotions with our team in the evenings and had time to share about our daily
activities. We were also blessed to hear Oscar’s testimony. I am sure he gets tired of sharing it with
each group, but he has an amazing testimony of God’s work in his life. It touches the hearts of all who hear it and
makes them feel as if they know him personally.

We are so
impressed with all the men and women who serve on Oscar’s team. They are so kind and friendly, and they work
so hard. They start early in the morning
and finish late in the evening. The men
are very protective of us when we are out.
They all love the Lord and it shows in how they treat not only us, but
also everyone in the villages. And the
food. . . we think we will lose weight when we go, but not the way these women
cook. The food is excellent and the
freshly made juice each day is delicious.
These women work so hard and they are always either cooking or
cleaning. There is so much love in their
smiles as they interact with us and they truly make us feel welcome. The entire team has a deep love and respect
for Oscar and Rosibel, which clearly shows through in their interactions with
them. And the feelings are mutual as we
see how Oscar and Rosibel treat them with the same love and respect.

It is truly
a blessing to be able to serve with On Eagle’s Wings Ministry. Our church is already raising money to build
another house at the dump next year. The
team members developed a spiritual bond with Oscar and Rosibel and his team,
and look forward to returning to Nicaragua to serve the Lord with them. As Pastor Charles stated, they are the “real
deal”!

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

God is good! This building
you see here is the pharmacy, a clinic, a recovery room and a lab.

The goal is to serve the community and evangelize everyone that comes to receive
medical assistance as they will receive free health care, and also to assist
our pastors that we are working with through our feeding programs and anyone in
their congregation that needs health assistance.

The pharmacy is almost finish and ready to run as soon as we work out a few
details such as put up windows, equipped the facilities with furniture and load
up the pharmacy with meds.

We will need $ 600.00 dollars a month to run everything mentioned.

We need $200.00 to pay a local Christian Doctor a basic salary a month to see patients
on the weekly basis and we need $400.00 to keep the pharmacy stocked with meds
to keep it running.

We need you support and prayers. This is a dream come true! A year ago this
pharmacy and clinic was only a dream, but today the Lord has answered our prayers. Thank
the Lord first to Him for His honor and glory. We also thank IIM for their
support and being the instrument God has used to bless our ministry and
thousands of children here in Nicaragua. Also to all those that have supported
these projects by giving to this cause, may the Lord keep you and bless you
all.